This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment features Novell Chairman Jack Messman talking about Hovell's historic role as a provider of insfrastructure software, meaning software that he describes as helping people connect to the Internet and large mainframe computer networks. He then gives the overall big picture as to how the company will make money with open source software. In particular, he begins a...
Topics: Novell, Jack Messman, Messman, Jack, SuSE Linux, Linux, business models for open source, desktop...
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this continuation segment, Novell Chairman Jack Messman calls open source a "powerful force" that is changing the software industry. One thing I didn't know is that, according to Jack, most software is written inside businesses for internal use. He says that more and more of the companies will need to turn to the open source community to cope with the costs of writing the code,...
Topics: Jack Messman, Messman, Jack, Novell's history, open source as "powerful force", business...
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. I really find Amy to be very engaging. She's got a great voice, and she never says "um" or "uh" or "like". In this segment, Amy explains how IBM is using commodity Linux to sell services, by adding value on tope of commodity open source software. IBM versus Microsoft is, of course, a theme that runs through our footage, because Microsoft is using FOSS to disrupt...
Topics: Amy Wohl, Wohl, Amy, Messman, Jack, Jack Messman, rising tide of open source disruption, good...
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Amy Wohl points out that open source software is not limited to just operating systems, but also is present in applications, such as OpenOffice.org's competition with Microsoft Office. She says that it is not easy to tell what market share an application like OpenOffice.org has, because it is possible to do multiple installs legally from a single disk. There is one sound...
Topics: Amy Wohl, Wohl, Amy, Messman, Jack, Jack Messman, rising tide of open source disruption, good...
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this particular segment Jack Messman finishes his sentence from the previous segment, in which he says that he feels that the Linux desktop will start to gain attention in 2005 or 2006. Jack also talks about Novell's plans to grow its revenue with open source. He says that much of Novell's revenue was historically tied to the NetWare operating system. In the face of declining revenues...
Topics: Jack Messman, Messman, Jack, Novell's history, Novell NetWare, business models for open source, Nat...
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment continues with Jack Messman picking up where he left of in the previous segment, 002, talking about Hovell's decision to buy SuSE Linux. This is a very interesting segment, and IMHO, it is the most interesting of Jack's segments up to this point in the interview. Jack says that Novel was peeved that SCO was claiming that some of its (SCO's) proprietary Unix code had...
Topics: Jack Messman, Messman, Jack, SCO, and Novell's SuSE Linux, Novell's history, SuSE Linux history...
